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Happy Birthday to me! I was born 66 years ago at 8:02 pm, a Sunday, just as the Ed Sullivan Show came on with musical guests Tony Martin, Roger Williams, and Xavier Cugat. The top charting song on my birthday was Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool." On the following Sunday Pan Am launched the first ...continue reading "Will you still love me when I’m . . . 66?"

Artistic director Kirven Douthit-Boyd stopped by Today in St. Louis to talk about their new name and fall season, "(RE)Imagine."

The Wall Street Journal asks Donald Trump how he would persuade Xi Jinping to leave Taiwan alone: “Oh, very easy,” the former president says.... “I would say: If you go into Taiwan, I’m sorry to do this, I’m going to tax you”—meaning impose tariffs—“at 150% to 200%.” He might even shut down trade altogether. Mr. ...continue reading "Trump: Xi Jinping knows I’m fucking crazy"

Team leaders said this was the longest deployment in the program's history.

Luke Altmyer threw for a touchdown and ran for another, leading No. 22 Illinois to a 21-7 victory over No. 24 Michigan on Saturday.

Saint Louis University announced the layoffs of 23 staff members on Friday.

During his rally today at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump opened with a long, rambling story about.......Arnold Palmer. For your weekend viewing pleasure, here are the last 37 seconds: Trump’s closing argument is about the size of Arnold Palmer’s dick pic.twitter.com/eP5w0UXOKo — Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 19, 2024

28-year-old Corey S. Thompsen with the Illinois State Police served the community for nearly five years.

A little while back the FBI modified its crime dashboard to show monthly figures instead of annual ones. Here's what it looks like: SRS is the old FBI crime reporting system. A decade ago they rolled out a new system called NIBRS. Over time, more and more police departments adopted NIBRS, and in 2021 the ...continue reading "The FBI’s crime data is crap these days"